Ilemobade, Adeshola(Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València, 2024-03-06)
[EN] Studies into water for firefighting are sparse in global literature. Over the past three decades, 6 published studies have been undertaken in South Africa to quantify the extent of municipal water employed to fight ...
[EN] Confined nanosized spaces at the interface between a metal and a seemingly inert material, such as a silicate, have recently been shown to influence the chemistry at the metal surface. In prior work, we observed that ...
Romero Marrero, Laura Ester; Pérez-Sánchez, Modesto; López Jiménez, Petra Amparo(International Energy and Environment Foundation, 2017-01)
[EN] Agriculture is a significant user of water and energy in Mediterranean coasts of Europe, such as Spanish Mediterranean regions. Water implications of such irrigations are well known but there are many problems that ...
[EN] Edible films based on high molecular weight chitosan (CH) and methylcellulose (MC) were obtained by mixing different ratios (0:1, 0.5:1.5, 1.0:1.0, 1.5:0.5 and 1:0) of the biopolymers in two solvent conditions (0.95 ...
[EN] The aim of this work is to demonstrate the relationships established between an economy’s productive sectors and the water consumption generated during their productive processes. We study de Andalusian reality, region ...
[EN] This document shows some aspects regarding water leakage time propagation through the underground, in controlled laboratory conditions, using a drilled PVC pipe, through the interpretation of GPR images. The extraction ...
Gómez Martínez, Gabriel; Pérez-Martín, Miguel Ángel(MDPI AG, 2023-09)
[EN] Integration of renewable energy sources and water production technologies is a must when facing water scarcity problems in semiarid regions, such as Mediterranean regions. The use of additional water resources and ...
Najjaj, April L.(Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València, 2015-03-03)
[EN] The Alhambra is a medieval palace-city that had been the royal residence and seat of
government for the Nasrid Kingdom of Granada, the last Islamic dynasty of al-Andalus. With the
dynasty’s founding in 1238 CE, a ...
[EN] There is a growing interest in environmental policies about how to implement public participation engagement in the context of water resources management. This paper presents a robust methodology, based on ordered ...
Reynoso-Meza, Gilberto; Carreño-Alvarado, Elizabeth P.; Montalvo Arango, Idel; Izquierdo Sebastián, Joaquín(International Center for Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE), 2017-07-05)
[EN] Dealing with real world engineering problems, often comes with facing multiple and conflicting
objectives and requirements. Water distributions systems (WDS) are not exempt from this: while
cost and hydraulic performance ...
López Jiménez, Petra Amparo; Pérez Sánchez, Modesto(2023-06-05)
Los sistemas de distribución de agua (tanto de redes de abastecimiento como de riego) pueden ser de varias formas, pero atendiendo a la manera en que se transporta el agua pueden ser a lámina libre o presurizados. En ...
[EN] Water utilities are responsible for continuously providing safe water to consumers through their drinking water distribution systems. Avoiding siloed approaches that may lengthen critical response times in the case ...
[EN] To satisfy their main goal, namely providing quality water to consumers, water distribution networks (WDNs) need to be suitably monitored. Only well designed and reliable monitoring data enables WDN managers to make ...
[EN] With increasing evidence of climate change affecting the quality of water resources, there is the need to assess the potential impacts of future climate change scenarios on water systems to ensure their long-term ...
Traditionally, water quality modelling has focused on modelling individual water bodies. However, water quality management problems must be analyzed at the basin scale. European Water Framework Directive (WFD) requires ...
[EN] One of the industrial concerns is to change procedures into sustainable and cleaner processes. In electroplating, researches have been developed to replace toxic materials for safer alternatives. Cyanide salts are ...
[EN] With the aim of assessing the potential of microalgae cultivation for water resource recovery (WRR), the performance of three 0.55 m3 flat-plate photobioreactors (PBRs) was evaluated in terms of nutrient removal rate ...
Sánchez-Chóliz, Julio; Sarasa, Cristina(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2013-06-07)
[EN] This paper aims to analyze the evolution in recent years of the water situation in Riegos del Alto Aragón (127.210 ha), a major irrigation scheme in north-eastern Spain. We study the evolution of water demand, irrigation ...
[EN] Wetlands play a key role in preserving biodiversity and preventing climate change. Their conservation poses an important and pressing challenge. In the Mediterranean region, one of the key threats to wetland survival ...